Red shirt, with shadow
pin-stripes. Red v-neck, with three thin white stripes and two thin navy
blue stripes in middle. Red cuffs, with three thin white stripes and two
thin navy blue stripes in middle. Thin white stripe along
shoulder. Embroidered emblem on left breast. Two embroidered white
concentric diamonds on right breast, with 'umbro' in white
lower-case lettering underneath. White numbers on reverse, with a red
border, outlined in white.

White shorts, with white
drawstring. Thin red
stripe down seams, with a thin navy blue stripe on each side. Two embroidered
navy blue concentric diamonds on left thigh, with 'umbro' in navy blue
lower-case lettering underneath. Embroidered emblem on right thigh.

An Aertex
short-sleeved version of the shirt, with white numbers on the reverse in the
old Umbro font last worn by England in 1974, was worn against West Germany in 1985.

A third short-sleeved version of the shirt was worn against Israel in 1986.
This one featured wider shadow stripes and the numbers were again in the
old-style font.

There was a
further edition prepared for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, but
it was never worn in a full
international. It was identical to that worn in Israel, except that a plain red hem replaced the cuffs and 'FIFA WORLD CUP MEXICO'86' was displayed in
white directly
underneath the emblem.

Most Appearances

7 - John
Barnes (2 sub), Kenny Sansom

6 -
Chris Waddle (1 sub)

34 England internationals
wore this shirt.

For Sansom, it was the fourth successive England shirt in
which no other player had made more appearances than the left-back.

England’s 1000th
international, Neil Webb, was one of six players to win their first cap in this
shirt. He went on to win 26.

Steve McMahon won the first of his
seventeen caps.

Seven players won their last cap in the
shirt, including Tony Woodcock’s 42nd international appearance.

Top Scorers

5 -
Bryan Robson (1 Pen.)

4 - Gary
Lineker

2 -
Kerry Dixon, Mark Hateley

Three players scored their first
international goal in this shirt, including Chris Waddle’s first of six, and
Kerry Dixon’s first of four.

The other first-time scorer, Kenny Sansom, never
scored again for England, despite winning 86 caps.

Captains

5 -
Bryan Robson

1 - Peter Beardsley

The goalkeeper, Peter Shilton led them out on the other
two occasions.

Beardsley never captained his country again.

Four
months after the launch of Umbro's
new white kit, its red equivalent
appeared on the tour of South America.

Although the red shirt was only worn against
Uruguay, the shorts and socks were worn in every game of the tour, paired
with the white shirt in the other fixtures, in Brazil and Chile.

The shirt got off to an inauspicious start with a
2-0 defeat, but next appeared at Wembley when England changed from their
usual white against Finland and proceeded to slam five goals past them. This
was the first of three consecutive resounding victories in the red shirt,
the most prestigious of which was against the mighty West Germans on
England's last appearance in an
Aertex shirt which helped England acclimatise much better to
the rarified atmosphere of Mexico City than their jet-lagged opponents.

Four months later, England qualified for the World
Cup in style, by despatching the Turks at Wembley, in an unusual combination
of red shirts, navy blue shorts and red socks, for the first time in their
history. There were four more outings for the red shirt and although a
new
white kit was introduced in 1987, it was to be a further year before Umbro came up with the
next red kit.